Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.